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Registrants will have the opportunity to attend live/online sessions throughout the day focused on best practices, program overviews, and current research related to supporting perinatal people who use substances. The day promises to be engaging, fast-paced, and interactive, with opportunities for attendees to ask presenters questions.
The full day's agenda and additional speakers will be released closer to the event date. This event will be recorded and available to registrants to view up to 14 days after the release date.
Keynote Presenter:
Heather Cameron, RN
Executive Director, British Columbia Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs
Perinatal Substance Use (PSU) Support Skills: Parenting-Friendly Relapse Prevention Planning and Parenting Safety Plans
In this keynote session, attendees will review perinatal substance use (PSU) best practices and explore practical tools to better support perinatal people who use substances. Two tools that will be explored in-depth include parenting-friendly relapse prevention plans and parenting safety plans and how to support perinatal people to create and implement them.
Heather will share both professional and lived-experience examples to help attendees envision how these tools can be implemented in real-life, day-to-day practice scenarios. Printable resources will be provided to all attendees.
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the key aspects of creating a parenting-friendly relapse prevention plan, including strategies to ensure the plan is practical and family-centered
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Describe the key aspects of a parenting safety plan and identify common planning pitfalls to avoid
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Support perinatal people to create and implement relapse prevention and parenting safety plans in a way that increases their capacity to parent safely while addressing their substance use disorder
Keynote's Bio:
Heather Cameron is honoured to work, play and live on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Secwepemc Nation. Heather is a Registered Nurse with a Perinatal Specialty Certificate who has been working with pregnant people in a variety of settings since 2005. Her experience includes program planning, public speaking, and spearheading community development events. As a Registered Nurse, Heather has worked in several fields including withdrawal management, labour & delivery, and maternity.
Heather has a proven track record of being able to bring communities together with her experience organizing conferences, creating grass-roots programs, and influencing system changes at the local, regional, and provincial levels. Two projects that Heather is most proud of include a peer-based recovery support group for birth parents affected by substance use, Mothers for Recovery, and the Healthy Care Pregnancy Program that supports perinatal people who use substances. Heather may be most well-known for her Perinatal Substance Use Training that she created and has been presenting since 2007 throughout BC, Canada and beyond. Her volunteer involvement on a variety of committees including Foundry Kamloops, Make Children First, Perinatal Connections, Raise-a Reader, and S.W.A.T. (Sex Workers Accessing Treatment) has influenced Heather’s knowledge base and ability to create impactful change within communities.
REGISTRATION IS NON-REFUNDABLE
Discount group ticketing is available for four or more more tickets, please email admin@bcapop.ca for pricing. Tickets are transferable to another individual, please email admin@bcapop.ca for any name substitutions. Registration is not complete until payment is received.
